UTSA receives gift to establish accounting chair

Expect new star accounting profs soon at UTSA, as the estate of a San Antonio realtor gave the university’s accounting department $500,000 to establish a new endowed chair in accounting.

Jacqueline E. Ramsdell, a veteran realtor with Jones-King Realty who died in 2006, requested that the new accounting chair be named in honor of her parents, so it will be known as the Glenn L. and Sally P. Ramsdell Memorial Chair for Accounting at the UTSA College of Business.

Accounting department chairman James Gross said the gift will mean UTSA will be able to recruit top accounting faculty members.